If a farmer wants to protect from falling corn and soybean prices, it can lock in the price in the futures market, also a hedging strategy.

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Since first disclosing the loss, Dimon has largely pinned the blame on a hedging strategy gone wrong, a synthetic credit portfolio initially intended to protect the company that became a successful position and blinded those who were in charge of managing it to the rising threat it posed.

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Data from Hedge Fund Research, a consultancy, show that in the second quarter, a share-hedging strategy involving both long and short sales was the most popular in America and Britain.

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Traders were using a new kind of hedging strategy called portfolio insurance, which involved linking stock prices to the futures index.

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The winning submission from MFX Solutions focused on eliminating currency risk for international SME lenders by adopting a proven currency-hedging strategy pioneered in the microfinance industry.

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On Thursday, we posted a strategy for hedging bets on BIDU into earnings, and that gave us a chance to stay involved in the stock for higher prices while locking in gains from the recent run higher.

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Sometimes it turns out to be a more profitable strategy than hedging.

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Things are so gloomy on Wall Street that even the mighty Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ) is seen having a lukewarm quarter, barring any stealth hedging strategy that could lift it out of normalcy.

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"Some natural hedging was always a part of the long-term strategy, but also we have a corporate strategy of having production follow the market, " says Robert Hitt, BMW's manager of public affairs.

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